The Carpetbagger Report

Guest Post by Adam It’s not so much a rule as an instinct: I generally cringe when the first thing someone says to me is how comfortable they are with black people. (Uh, thanks?) It’s partially because I’m one of those people who happens to believe everyone’s a little racist. But that doesn’t really matter […]

Guest Post by Adam As a regular CR reader, I know people love these so I’ll try my best to reproduce one. Apparently a Yeshiva student stole Obama’s prayer from the Western Wall (it’s a custom to insert a small piece of paper with a prayer into the cracks…at this point, the cracks in the […]

Guest Post by Adam Bill O’Reilly has absolutely no sense of proportion, as befits someone who is essentially a walking violation of Godwin’s Law. But earlier this week, he outdid himself, as he sometimes does: While discussing MoveOn.org’s “Petition Against Fox’s Racist & Hate-Filled Smears” on the July 23 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly […]

Guest Post by Ron Chusid Steve M. has beaten me to commenting on one item I was thinking about writing on so I will keep this brief. As he mentioned, John McCain was critical of Barack Obama’s statement in his speech in Germany where he referred to himself as a citizen of the world. As […]

Guest Post by Adam Earlier this week, when CBS was revealed as having edited an interview in a manner that omitted a pretty serious foreign policy error on McCain’s part, I assumed the problem was ignorance, rather than a deliberate effort to hide what had happened. It’s one of the major shortcomings of the evening […]

Guest Post by Steve M. If the McCain campaign and the right blogosphere are horrified by Barack Obama because he called himself a “citizen of the world” in his Berlin speech, then they should be really furious at the liberal hippie who said this: I’ve had to make some very difficult decisions, as you know, […]

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is, I’m taking an exceedingly rare day off, my first since February. The good news is, some friends of mine will filling in for me. Steve M. from No More Mister Nice Blog, Ron Chusid from Liberal Values, and Adam Serwer, a writing fellow at […]

Today’s edition of quick hits. * Wall Street “abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market’s recent optimism. The major indexes fell about 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost more than 275 […]

Conservatives, of course, were unlikely to praise Barack Obama’s speech before 200,000 in Berlin today. But I found some of the criticism to be more misguided than usual. Here’s Ross Douthat, for example: Yes, of course the Hitler comparisons are absurd, but I’d really like to know which genius on the Obama campaign thought it […]

It’s July. Neither candidate has picked a running mate. We’re more than a month away from either party’s convention. The Democratic candidate didn’t lock down the nomination until last month. Election Day is 102 days away. With that in mind, it just doesn’t make any sense to get too excited, in either direction, about what’s […]